In Anthony Lange’s Birds in a Land of No Trees, astrophysics researcher Quentin Narmast expects nothing more than an awkward evening when an eccentric stranger named Conrad Lyzachootri arrives at his Boston apartment, claiming to represent an interstellar council. Hours later, Quentin awakens inside the...

Entertaining and well-researched, A. Piper Burgi’s The Exploress and the Pillars of Eternity is a fine example of historical fiction. Set in the early nineteenth century, at a time when Egypt was just beginning to allow Europeans access to their country and its archaeological treasures,...

Scientific research on a cure for HIV has come a long way since the 1980s. But there is still progress to be made. With Holding HIV, Pauline Sameshima, Emily Turner, and Dazié Grego-Sykes present an enthralling collection of poems. Inspired by members of San Francisco's...

Pirates and smugglers threaten a summer gathering in the exciting romance novel, Windvale (Regency Love Stories: Book 5) by Karen Thornell. Sir Henry is a spy like his father, and when a mission goes wrong, he quits the world of espionage. Now he is floundering...

The Hallway Miracle by Cara Shine is a memoir about transformation in the midst of chaos. After the horrifying experience of the September 11 attacks, Cara and her family had to face the terror of the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area....

Thomas R. Boniello’s A Symphony of Spies is an espionage thriller that bridges international intelligence and the rarefied world of classical music. Drew Reid is an intelligent subatomic physicist working on a classified project; he also suffers from limerence, a condition that makes him overshare...

In Shawn Allen Stewart’s Bailey & Daisy’s Day at The Pampered Pooch, the rescue dogs are ecstatic to have a spa day. Bailey and Daisy take it all in as they receive bubble baths, blow dries, paw massages, and a grooming experience for royalty. Daisy...

In Ramcy Diek’s Frenzy of the Storm, Fleur Keizer lives in 1864 at Keizer Manor, when a violent storm in the dunes pulls her from her world and leaves her near the Abernathey Research Center in the present day. Cassius Rewick recognizes that her arrival...

In R.D. Moreno’s ZADA 5: The Window Splinters, Connor Balcazar, a newly named duke, works to secure an interplanetary empire led by Empress Christina while Lorenzo rebuilds his power after escaping captivity. He prepares an assault on the capital world of Markus 2 using portal...

The Sooner I Go by Heather Cumiskey is the story of Brynn Gallardo, a recent high school graduate who is still devastated by the simultaneous deaths of her boyfriend Cody and her musician parents in separate car accidents on the same night seven months ago....

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

Cruise Fling is the story of Andrea, who has been a single parent since losing her husband three years ago. She needs a vacation and books one, but when her family backs out, she decides to go anyway. She’s been stuck in grieving for so...

The Raven and the Rose by Adra Mayfield and Leanne Blakemore is a tightly written and well-plotted historical romance set in 1840 in Northumberland, England. Lady Rosalind Englebright is a spirited woman who prefers breeches to ballgowns. She is fierce and untamed. Her father is...

In her memoir Made In Vietnam: My Epic American Journey, Elaine Damschen describes growing up in a household with strict control and uneven affection, where she learned to monitor her behavior and limit her emotional expression for stability. As she enters adulthood, she leaves home...

In Selina Co’s explosive memoir, I’m a Romance Scam IT Detective, Selina, an IT consultant in Australia, begins a steady online exchange with Frederick Chong, who claims to be a civil engineer working from New York. She quickly fixes their future around a meeting overseas,...

In Judith Kendall’s The Tangled Web, railway payroll officer James McConnolly leaves Adelaide in December 1912 carrying the Christmas wages for the South Australian Railways, but never reaches his first delivery stop. His disappearance leaves his wife, Lizbeth, to rebuild her life in New Zealand...

Into the Dax by Bob Welch follows Kiley, a systems engineer working with pollination drones in an agricultural region, whose routine changes when hostile machines destroy her network and target her directly. A recorded message from her father, Lucas Van, a scientist in hiding, reveals...

Life's challenges can bring a range of anxiety, stress, depression, and other mental health-related issues to a person. In this fast-paced world, it is often easy to look for "quick fixes." Dr. Celeste Birkhofer is a licensed clinical psychologist who has overcome significant personal setbacks....

There is a sense of loneliness when reading Ana’s words as Confessions of a Female Dominant opens. Every page and every word reveals it in a multitude of ways. She is a woman desperate for something, which she cannot name, not while in Russia and...

Dolly Parton once said, “The magic is inside you. There ain’t no crystal ball.” In C is for Courageous by Shanita Liu, young readers are taken on a warm, upbeat A–Z journey that shows them how courage is something they already possess. They just have...